Word: widely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After taking a deep, deep breath, I blow like crazy into a wide white tube connected to a spirometer that measures my lung capacity. And when there's nothing left to blow, Anne Spellacy, a registered nurse, tells me to keep blowing. The results are good; the volume of air, known as forced vital capacity (FVC), expelled by my lungs measures 5.16 liters per sec., 109% of what is predicted for a man my age, weight and height. Pulmonary capacity goes down with age, which is why older people tend to get out of breath faster than the young...
This puts a burden on the stars, for the movie has to run on their charm. Ford's cranky masculinity is, of course, a known quantity, although it's always fun to watch him simmer, snort and eventually soften. Snub-nosed, wide-eyed and high-spirited, Heche has an equally conventional transition to make, from Xanex-popping, would-be sophisticate with minimal survival skills to a woman who can bop a bad guy with a fallen tree branch and help repair the airplane for a getaway. She is also encumbered with a tiresome fiance (David Schwimmer), who takes...
...psychological realism of the Stanislavskian Method, as it came to be known; ideally suited, as well, to Brando's questing spirit. But in the '50s, as he reached the height of his powers, Hollywood sank to the nadir of its strength. Competing with TV, it embraced color, wide screen, spectacle--and was looking for bold, uncomplicated heroes to fill its big, empty spaces. Brando looked (and felt) ludicrous in this context...
...memoir, Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans, attests, was the ceremonial vigor of the people. Ranging from almost European pale to jet black, the Negroes of New Orleans had many social clubs, parades and picnics. With rags, blues, snippets from opera, church music and whatever else, a wide breadth of rhythm and tune was created to accompany or stimulate every kind of human involvement. Before becoming an instrumentalist, Armstrong the child was either dancing for pennies or singing for his supper with a strolling quartet of other kids who wandered New Orleans freshening up the subtropical evening with some sweetly...
...College, wrote the "classic" hypertext novel, afternoon, a story. The piece is told one screenful of text at a time; by clicking on adjectives and verbs, readers veer off in far-flung narrative directions. While this may sound like the same experience as following hypertext links around the World Wide Web, afternoon was written in 1987 and distributed on floppy disks--well before the Web opened its portals...